Marcus Lehto founded Ridgeline Games in 2021 to develop the narrative campaign for the next Battlefield, but the studio was shuttered before the game arrived.
Former Bungie longtimer March Lehto, the art director on the original Halo games among others, launched a new studio at Electronic Arts in 2021 called Ridgeline Games, with the express purpose of developing a «narrative campaign» for the next Battlefield game—the recently-released Battlefield 6, as it turned out. Ah, but it didn’t work out: A few years later he left EA, and shortly after that EA laid off the entire team and closed the studio.
Lehto said at the time that he was «incredibly upset and very sad» about the layoffs and closure, adding that he didn’t «have anything positive to say about EA» in the wake of his departure. And now, with Battlefield 6 out in the wild, EA has let him down even further.
«I’m disappointed to see that many of my former teammates from Ridgeline Games were not properly credited in the recent release of Battlefield 6», Lehto wrote on LinkedIn (via VGC).
